All Irving Babbitt Quotes
- Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes… Commercialism
- Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn. Anyone
- Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. America
- It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection. Act
- Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. Act
- We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism… Affirm
- To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations… Achieve
- To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned… Another Way
- Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism. Crusade
- If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism. Conditions
- Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn… Absence
- The humanities need to be defended to-day against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. Day
- The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality...… American